This special program of the festival consists of a selection of works by local choreographers which were conceived particularly for the festival's theme "Time." The selection by no means claims to be representative of the "young choreography" scene in Istanbul. Neither is it a "Dance Platform of Turkey." Rather, it developed as a call and response format: iDANS had submitted a call for projects in February 2008 for local emerging artists of various disciplines on the festival theme. After the reviewing of some 29 applications, iDANS visited some selected artists' rehearsal processes and discussed with them dramaturgical issues and concerns. In a way, it became a kind of "coaching project". We hope that the exchanges will continue well beyond the presentations, and high quality interventions will emerge from the encounter.

Artists in the program are: Lerna Babikyan, Münibe Millet, Gonca Gümüşayak, Esra Yurttut, Şebnem Yüksel, Talin Büyükkürkciyan, Ayşe Orhon and İlyas Odman.

Detailed information about the program will be distributed at the venue.

iDANS would also like to emphasize the fact that these emerging works were realized solely by the artists' own means - that is in "local time" - which unfortunately also denotes scarce resources, lack of proper professional rehearsal and presentation venues, and limited time.